Word: yust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says 49-year-old Editor Walter Yust: "They used to gather up a staff of editors and get out a new edition. Then the editorial staff would be fired and a sales staff hired. The sales staff would work for as many years as there was still a market. . . . Then the sales staff would be fired and a new editorial staff would be hired. Each new editorial staff would have its own revision methods. . . . The revisions weren't very thorough and there were always a lot of articles badly out of date...
Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which every article would be scrutinized at least twice a decade. As helpers in this job he has University of Chicago graduate students, paid in the form of $1,000 scholarships...
...afternoon last week, Milles's singing sculpture was unveiled. In bristly English Sculptor Milles explained his statue, wiped his forehead when he had finished. Said he afterward: "A sculptor likes to vork, you know. But dis making speeches iss much harder. Yust as soon as I open my mouth I tink I am saying vot iss wrong. I feel much better now dis iss ofer...